With sweeping tariff changes in the US, global instability in the Middle East and Ukraine, lingering effects of drought in southern Australia, there was a lot to talk about in the latest Weekly Grill markets update podcast with regular commentators Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish.

In today’s episode Kerry Lonergan catches up with the pair on US President Trump’s evolving tariff negotiations and the implications for China, the knock-on affects for Australia and other international markets, and how this affects the local cattle and sheep markets.

In other news the trio discuss:

• The industry’s overreaction to Trump’s tariffs
• The impact of the drought in the south
• Livestock numbers moving north
• Winter cropping
• More feedlots custom-feeding
• MLA’s Confidence Survey
• Goats
• China
• Urea prices
• The outlook post winter